Brown University Black Alumni Reunion: September 21-23, 2018

Black Alumni Reunion: September 21-23, 2018

http://brown.edu/go/BAR2018 

Brown University and the Inman Page Black Alumni Council (IPC) invite you to mark your calendar for a very special three-day event, at a pivotal moment in time for our community.

Are you in?

Registration, schedule and speaker information will be available later this spring, but we know you want to make plans now. So here are three action items to help you start getting ready:

1. Check your Brown alumni profile.
   Be sure to get event updates by confirming that Brown has your current email address and that your profile* is up to date (see below).
2. Spread the Black Alumni Reunion love!
   Share the IPC’s Facebook event with your friends.
3. Take the pledge.
   Let us know you are committed to being a part of the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion. Participation in promoting and/or attending the Reunion is vital to the success of this celebration. Take the pledge today! A list of those who have taken the pledge will be posted in the coming weeks.
4. It’s not too early to book accommodations.
   - Check out Brown’s Travel Portal, which features nearby hotels at special Brown rates.
   - Find low-cost apartment rentals close to campus: AirBnB | Homeaway.com
   - Discount booking sites may land you a great deal: Groupon.com | Hotels.com | Expedia.com
5. Source: http://brown.edu/go/BAR2018
6. Interested in Corporate Sponsorship? Please contact: 
7. Kimberly V. Nelson
   Assistant Director, Multicultural Programs
   Brown Annual Fund
   Tel: +1 (401) 863-9835  kimberly_nelson@brown.edu 

Saturday 10/29/16 - FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CROWN HEIGHTS COLLEGE FAIR / CAREER DAY

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COLLEGE FAIR / CAREER DAY

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2016 11:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

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11/17/15 Awakening Our Democracy: Policing Bodies, Borders, and Rights at Columbia University, School of Law

The African American Policy Forum

Join November 17, 2015 at Columbia Law School to see #BlackLivesMatter's DeRay Mckesson, Barbara Arnwine, Kimberle Crenshaw and More on the Future of Our Democracy! RSVP - bit.ly/awakeningourdemocracy

Tweet your thoughts throughout the event to ‪#‎AwakeningOurDemocracy‬

FEATURING:
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

MODERATED BY:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series 11/17/15

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Nov. 16, 2015 Shirley Chisholm '46 (center) announced her groundbreaking presidential candidacy, supported by celebrities like actor Ossie Davis (right). "What would it mean if President Obama or Hillary Clinton evoked Shirley Chisholm's name?" asks Zinga A. Fraser Ph.D., the new director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, "because, in many ways, she not only paves the way for them, she provides a trajectory and strategy on how to create political coalitions that cross boundaries." Fraser, a former endowed post-doctoral fellow in women's and gender studies and recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2014 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award, has organized this year's Shirley Chisholm Day talk, held on Nov. 17 in the Penthouse of the Brooklyn College Student Center. The keynote address will be delivered by Robin Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California-Los Angeles. The annual event celebrates the legacy of Shirley Chisholm '46, who became the first major-party black candidate for president of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.  "She provides what Professor Kelley identifies as ‘the freedom dream'—that is, how we can reimagine and understand freedom, despite the outcome," adds Fraser. Chisholm's memoir Unbought and Unbossed details her grassroots, community-building efforts among a wide variety of constituencies, including blacks, whites, Latinos, lower-income and middle-class families, women across demographics, and the LGBT community. Her work with the last group, Fraser says, was ahead of its time and often overlooked by scholars. It also illustrates how difficult forging these alliances can be, even in a place like Brooklyn, which, according to Fraser, has one of the highest numbers of black women elected to public office in the country.   Chief among her responsibilities, Zinga A. Fraser, Ph.D., the new director of the Brooklyn College Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, is looking forward to promoting Chisholm's continued importance to Brooklyn and beyond. "Chisholm also tells us a great deal about the possibility and importance of learning from political failures," says Fraser. "As much as her story is about the aspirational, groundbreaking work that she did, it's also about the constraints in coalition building. In the end, it wasn't her ability to connect these groups, but the inability of these groups to work together for a common cause. But even in her failure to get various coalitions to work collectively, she provides us with some of the playbook that would later be utilized by our current president." This semester is Fraser's first as director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, whose archive, housed at the Brooklyn College Library, is the world's largest for Chisholm-related artifacts. Fraser took over the role from Barbara Winslow and is very excited about the efforts to raise Chisholm's profile as a central and influential figure in the contemporary political landscape. "The goal is to connect Chisholm's legacy to present-day conversations around race, gender, politics and social and economic inequality. Moreover, I hope to place Chisholm and her legacy in context with current issues that impact the Brooklyn communities she supported," says Fraser. "That is why we have had a wide array of speakers both national and local. So part of her legacy is the political empowerment of marginalized communities, as well as providing a model for political accountability. She advocated for those considered invisible by politicians and the media." Fraser is currently writing a book that is a comparative study of Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, as well as other black women political figures, in the context of examining their political genius, the different strategies they used to affect change, and how they negotiated the intersections of racism, misogyny, and sexism. Fraser also hopes to raise awareness and funds to accomplish things like bolstering the archive, creating paid internships that will allow students to work on Chisholm-related projects and conferences and perhaps even financing scholarships in Chisholm's name. To learn more about Shirley Chisholm and the work of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, please visit the project's website. See the Brooklyn College calendar for details about the Shirley Chisholm Day event. Source: Brooklyn College

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New York Urban League 29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

Saturday, November 14, 2015

11:00AM-3:30PM

Http://www.nyul.org/HBCU

29th Annual HBCU Fair, in partnership with the New York Urban League Young Professionals, attracts over 3,000 New York City high school students, out-of-state high school students, and their parents. Located at the Riverbank State Park facility in Harlem, the event features more than 45 HBCUs, some of which provide on-site admissions and scholarship awards, and also includes interactive workshops on college admissions, applying for financial aid, preparing for the first year in college, and succeeding on standardized entry exams.

29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

Saturday, November 14, 2015

11:00AM-3:30PM

Pre-Register Today!

Riverbank State Park

679 Riverside Drive at 145th Street

New York, NY 10031

Partners:

Malcolm Bernard HBCU Fair

Riverbank State Park

NYUL Young Professionals

Source: New York Urban League 

Providence, RI - Black Lives Matter: Recognizing and Minimizing Trauma Among Black Youth

Black Lives Matter: Recognizing and Minimizing Trauma Among Black Youth

Roundtable discussion around the effects of trauma among black youth both in the past and in the ongoing struggle for freedom. What are the costs of freedom? 

Monday, September 21, 2015
4:00 pm
Churchill House, George H. Bass Theater
155 Angell Street, Providence

David Dennis, Director of the Southern Initiative Algebra Project, Civil Rights Movement Veteran

Corey Walker, Dean, College of Arts, Sciences, Business and Education, John W. and Anna Hodgin Hanes Professor of the Humanities, Winston-Salem State University

Oliver Hill, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Virginia State University

Kevin Favor, Professor of Psychology, Lincoln University

Moderated by Françoise Hamlin, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Brown University

Sponsored by the Pembroke Center, Brown Center for Students of Color, Department of Africana Studies, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Center for the Study for Race and Ethnicity in America.

This project is supported, in part, by a Pembroke Center Seed Grant for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research. 

Source: Brown University 

Anti-Violence Panel Discussion | Tue 9.15.15 | The New School - More Than A Protest Novel: Connecting the Dots

RSVP at https://morethanaprotestsept15.eventbrite.com

Please join us for the upcoming event, “More Than a Protest Novel: Connecting the Dots - 1.5 Million Black (Wo)Men Missing,” a thought-provoking anti-violence panel.

Co-hosted by Black Ivy Events; the Harlem Alphas of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; and New Black School (student group), it will take place on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. at The New School’s Lang Center: 55 West 13th Street, off Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue).

This FREE event will take a look at personal experiences with violence; the current anti-violence space; real stats on homicide rates; and policy initiatives and new/innovative solutions to address the violence (including prayer).

It will also examine public policy and connect the dots with recent events like the deaths of Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland, and the Charleston Massacre.

More information regarding the book and author at hamnovels.com.

Book signing to follow.

Panelists include:

• A.T. Mitchell, founder of Man Up! Inc. in East New York, Brooklyn

• Marlon Peterson, founder of The Precedential Group—who was also featured in the internationally acclaimed blog, Humans of New York

• Iesha Sekou, founder of Street Corner Resources, Harlem

• Kathleen Horan, Former WNYC public radio reporter who did the series “In Harm’s Way, ” which—in 2013—memorialized the individual lives of New York City' kids killed by gunfire; and creator of the upcoming podcast, “Mortal City”

• Oresa Williams, Founder and CEO of Not Another Child

• Justyn Richardson, a recent alum of The New School's Milano Urban Policy graduate program, and a policy analyst for the NYC Department of Investigation

• Petra E. Lewis, author of the trilogy, The Sons and Daughters of Ham

From moderator, Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, to featured panelists, the event will showcase some of New York City’s top minds when it comes to effectively addressing (gun) violence—and do so in a “novel” way. The framework for the panel is the first book in novelist Petra E. Lewis’ trilogy, The Sons and Daughters of Ham, Book I: A Requiem, which examines a family in the aftermath of violence.

RSVP at https://morethanaprotestsept15.eventbrite.com

4/18/15 - Ministry in Action College and Career Day Brooklyn, NY

PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY MINISTRY IN ACTION COLLEGE AND CAREER DAY 2015

SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015, 9AM-3PM

TO RSVP

CONTACT SHARON ROBINSON 718-797-4230

EMAIL MIACOLLEGEANDCAREER@GMAIL.COM OR

FAX 718-399-8702

BROWN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH 

484 WASHINGTON AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 

Aspiring High School Students 
Young Adults ages 19-23 
The Unemployed

IRAAS Conversations Lecture – “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature

IRAAS Conversations Lecture  Thursday March 26th, 2015 6:15pm -8:15pm Columbia School of Social Work – Room C03 “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature” with   Theri Pickens, Assistant Professor of English – Bates College  In her first book, New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, Therí Pickens begins with following premise: In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. What can the experience of corporeality offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African Americans? By way of answer, she argues that Arab American and African American narratives rely on the body’s fragility, rather than its exceptional strength or emotion, to create urgent social and political critiques. Suturing critical race studies, and disability studies, Pickens turns to Du Bois’s question “how does it feel to be a problem?” since it hovers over her book project. She zeroes in on the verb “to feel,” accepting the invitation for phenomenological inquiry. In this talk, she examines Du Bois’s question as a framework that opens up new possibilities in analyzing Arab American author Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine’s fiction not only lingers on what it means to ‘feel’ like a problem but also proffers the space of the hospital as a way to orient a critique. Side-stepping the erasure of “Arab as the new Black,” Pickens proffers the conversation between Du Bois and Alameddine as a way to answer the exigencies of feeling, and being now. Speaker Bio Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She authored New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, which asks: How does a story about embodied experience transform from mere anecdote to social and political critique? Her critical work has appeared in MELUS, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Women & Performance, Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, and the critical volume, Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies (Teneo Ltd). She also has more upcoming critical work in the journal, Hypatia. She is also a creative writer. Her poetry has appeared in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Save the Date, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Her drama has been performed at the NJ State Theater. Join Our Mailing List! Contact Information Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, 758 Schermerhorn Ext – MC5512 New York, NY 10027 Email: iraas@columbia.edu

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